Sep

Classes to Take Before You Die I Mean Graduate

You don`t have to be old like this guy to be running out of time to take awesome classes

Your schedules don’t have to be finalized until Friday and Bwog knows that you are still looking for that one golden class that will make your ridiculously high tuition worth it. Here are our humble suggestions; please leave your own in the comments.

American Studies: Andrew Delbanco, Foundations of American Literature

Anthropology: Severin Fowles, Origins of Human Society

Anthropology: Mick Taussig, Interpretations of Culture

Asian Humanities: Colloqium on Major Texts: East Asia, with any professor but especially with William de Bary.

Creative Writing: Margo Jefferson, Modern Arts Writer

Creative Writing: Amy Benson, The Lyric Essay

Creative Writing: Cris Beam, The Literary Reporter

Earth and Environmental Science: Roger Anderson, Planet Earth

Economics: Sunil Gulati, Global Economy

English: Erik Gray, Romantic Poetry

English: Margaret Vandenburg, Modernism

History: Barbara Fields, History of the South/Anything

History: Casey Blake, U.S. Intellectual History: 1865 to the Present

History: Seth Fein, American Empire Projected on Film

History: Charles K. Armstrong, The Vietnam War

History: Sam Moyn, History of Human Rights

Political Science: PrezBo, Freedom of Speech and Press

Note: Not all of these classes are being offered this semester but since they`re all legendary it`s still good for you to know.

Romantic Poetry with Erik Gray does not involve "romantic" poetry being read to you and instead consists of poetry from the "Romantic" historical period. You will be left hollow, your manboner for Gray unfulfilled.

If you're a Barnard English major, try to get into her Post-Modernism seminar. It's so so so good, but limited (unfortunately) to about 15 students (or fortunately because more one-on-one time with Vandy).

Nonetheless, I would like to advocate D-mowsh's Intro Biology. You learn a lot, and she finds ways to make things interesting. The exams are, dare I say, fun to do - she makes you think. There's only one problem - the plethora of post-bac premeds